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ReviewFrontiers in plant science2025

Cloud-edge-device collaborative computing in smart agriculture: architectures, applications, and future perspectives.

Pengpeng Yu, Fei Teng, Wenhui Zhu, Chaoping Shen, Zhenping Chen, Jinxiu Song

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Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Pengpeng YuSchool of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Fei TengSchool of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Wenhui ZhuTianshui Huatian Technology Co., Ltd., Tianshui, Gansu, China.
Chaoping ShenSchool of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Zhenping ChenSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China.
Jinxiu SongSchool of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smart agriculture is rapidly evolving in response to growing global demands for food security and sustainable resource management. Cloud-edge-device collaborative computing has emerged as a transformative paradigm, addressing the limitations of traditional centralized architectures by enabling distributed intelligence, real-time processing, and adaptive decision-making. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the architectures, technical characteristics, and application scenarios of cloud-edge-device collaboration in agriculture. Key domains covered include environmental monitoring, intelligent irrigation, UAV-machinery coordination, livestock health management, and pest and disease control. Major challenges such as device heterogeneity, data consistency, resource constraints, and privacy concerns are identified and discussed. Furthermore, six critical research directions are outlined, including intelligent scheduling algorithms, lightweight edge AI, hierarchical data fusion, federated learning, interoperability frameworks, and digital twin technologies. This review aims to serve as a practical reference and theoretical foundation for advancing the design and implementation of next-generation smart agriculture systems.

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cloud–edge–device collaborationdistributed computingedge artificial intelligence (edge AI)environmental monitoringintelligent irrigationpest and disease managementprecision livestock farmingsmart agriculture

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PMID41164258
PMCPMC12558850

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